#3619 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Asian Mud-dauber Wasp

🇳🇱 Roodpootzwaluwwesp ·Sceliphron curvatum

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Robert Zimmermann · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Richard · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ernst Pisch · CC BY 4.0
4. © q_ilex · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © efix · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Mario Quevedo · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Fritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Sceliphron curvatum is an insect of the Sceliphron genus, of the Sphecidae family of wasps. Like all wasps of this genus, it is a solitary species and builds nests out of mud. S. curvatum is native to some regions of Asia and invasive to Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 19iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,961iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).